IMPERIAL WIRELESS

Evening Star, Issue 17393, 1 July 1920, Page 7

IMPERIAL WIRELESS

SCHEME RECOMMENDED. PROBABLE ANNUAL LOSS £100,009. Press Association— -By Telegraph—Copyright. Renter's Telegrams. LONDON, June, 28. (Received July 1, at 8.50 a.m.) The report of the Imperial Wireless Telegraphy Committee has been published. It recommends a scheme for the connection of the various, parts of the Empire by wireless links net exceeding 2,000 miles. The committee believe that Fy this procedure official, commercial, and Press traffic would be carried reliably, expeditiously, and economically, and all esential strategic needs would he met. The committee estimate the initial capital cost of the scheme at £1,243,000, with annual chargee, including interest and amortisation, of £425,000. The committee anticipate that the traffic 'would produce a- revenue of £325,000, leaving an annual loss of £IOO,OOO.

The_ committee recommend that the execution of the scheme, be entrusted to the engineering department of the Post Office, but long -distance wireless tiaffio with foreign countries might be left to commercial companies. The committee declear that the small temporary annual loss would be negligible in comparison uith the -Imperial 'benefits conferred. The report recommends that a service of communication between Leafield (Oxfordshire) and Cairo, bv Poulsen Arch, which will shortly be operated bv.the Post. Office, "he the first link in the "chain of ■ communication, to be continued bv a valve station near Nairobi (East Africa), and by the alteration of the ex-German station at Vi indhuk (S.W. Africa) to a valve station to complete the connection with South Africa; further, that, for communication with India, the Far' East, and Australia, valve stations be erected in’England, near Cairo, at Pcona (or some other Indian station), at Singapore, at Hongkong, and at Port Darwin or Perth.